Break The Line
10 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 11 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsBreak The Line is a monthly podcast where artists engage with contemporary poetry. The catch: the guests aren't poets. Poet-host Rebecca Farivar ("Correct Animal," "American Lit") chats with actors, comedians, memoirists, and more about themes in poetry related to their own field.
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Episodes
10: Web Series Based on Poetry
May 07, 2013 00:09 - 12.1 MB10: Web Series Based on Poetry Ram Devineni discusses his poetry-based web series Verse: A Murder Mystery.
09: Joshua Marie Wilkinson on “Poemfilms”
April 12, 2013 04:16 - 17.5 MB09: Joshua Marie Wilkinson on “Poemfilms” Poet Joshua Marie Wilkinson discusses three of his “poemfilms.”
08: Yew Journal: Visual Art Paired With Poetry
March 01, 2013 11:00 - 12.7 MBStephenie Foster, the designer for Yew Journal, discusses how she pairs visual art with poetry for the monthly journal. Yew Journal: Visual Art Paired with Poetry
07: Novelists on Short Poems
February 01, 2013 15:30 - 12 MBNovelists Mary Volmer and Michael David Lukas discuss short poems by Rebecca Wolff and Carol Snow. 07_ Novelists on Short Poems
06: Journalists on Documentary Poetics
January 06, 2013 23:18 - 14 MB06_ Journalists on Documentary Poetics
Educators on School Memories
December 07, 2012 16:00 - 12.3 MBEducators Michele Jonas and Monica Tirado discuss poems by Mary Karr and Will Hubbard. Educators on Memories from School
04: Comedians on Funny Poems
November 02, 2012 15:00 - 12.9 MBDuncan Wold and Evan Winchester, two members of the sketch comedy troupe Mission CTRL, discuss poems by Linh Dinh and Graham Foust. 04:Comedians on Funny Poems
03: A Tarot Reading of Brenda Shaughnessy
October 05, 2012 17:05 - 11.5 MBCarolyn Agis does a tarot reading of poems from the Arcana section of Our Andromeda by Brenda Shaughnessy. The poems in that section are found in the following order: Card 5: Hierophant Card 12: The Hanged Man Card 0: The Fool Card 20: Judgment Card 14: Temperance Card 7: The Chariot Card 9: The Hermit […]
02: Memoirists on Confessional Poems
September 07, 2012 15:00 - 12.1 MBMemoirists from the San Francisco Bay Area discuss poems by Beth Ann Fennelly and Louise Glück. 02: Memoirists on Confessional Poems
01: Actors on Persona Poems
July 23, 2012 00:35 - 12.9 MBActors from the San Francisco Mime Troupe discuss persona poems by Ai and Holly Iglesias. 01_ Actors on Persona Poems